weekday
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English weke-day, wykday, wok day, woke day, wockeday, wouke day, wukedaȝȝ, equivalent to week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
weekday (plural weekdays)
- A day of the week except those which form the weekend; that is:
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
- (Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
- (Persian) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
Synonyms[edit]
- workday
- working day
- (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day
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Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- American Heritage Dictionary
- “weekday” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.
- “weekday” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary